The Comforts of Home: Sex Workers and the Canadian War Novel
Canadian cultural memory of the First World War is conspicuously asexual considering Canadians had among the highest rates for venereal disease in the British Expeditionary Force. There is an inherited reticence to discuss soldiers’ sex lives. There is no such silence in Canadian war novels. In thes...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:eccs_643 https://doi.org/10.4000/eccs.643 urn:doi:10.4000/eccs.643 en https://journals.openedition.org/eccs/643 2016-11-26T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ff7u All rights reserved The Comforts of Home: Sex Workers and the Canadian War Novel Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies Association française des études canadiennes (AFEC) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2429-4667 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0153-1700 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eccs Abram, Zachary guerre sexe prostitution genre mémoire collective war sex sex work gender collective memory Canadian cultural memory of the First World War is conspicuously asexual considering Canadians had among the highest rates for venereal disease in the British Expeditionary Force. There is an inherited reticence to discuss soldiers’ sex lives. There is no such silence in Canadian war novels. In these novels, sex workers facilitate the forging of a distinctly domestic space. Indicative of the persistent schism between the front and the home-front, however, this proxy space inevitably becomes untenable and the relationship between soldier and sex worker comes to stand in for the fraught relationship between soldier and home-front and vice versa. La mémoire culturelle canadienne de la Première Guerre mondiale est plutôt asexuée alors qu’il y avait un taux élevé de maladies vénériennes chez les soldats canadiens. Il y a une certaine réticence à discuter de la vie sexuelle des soldats. Pourtant les romans de guerre canadiens rompent ce silence. Dans ces romans, les prostituées recréent un espace familier loin de la maison. Mais, en raison des tensions constantes entre le front de guerre et le front au Canada, cet espace devient insoutenable. La relation entre soldat et prostituée incarne la relation tendue qui existe entre le soldat et son pays natal, et vice versa. |
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Canadian cultural memory of the First World War is conspicuously asexual considering Canadians had among the highest rates for venereal disease in the British Expeditionary Force. There is an inherited reticence to discuss soldiers’ sex lives. There is no such silence in Canadian war novels. In these novels, sex workers facilitate the forging of a distinctly domestic space. Indicative of the persistent schism between the front and the home-front, however, this proxy space inevitably becomes untenable and the relationship between soldier and sex worker comes to stand in for the fraught relationship between soldier and home-front and vice versa. |
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The Comforts of Home: Sex Workers and the Canadian War Novel |
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